AS294

AS294 is a legacy autonomous system number held under RIPE NCC by GIP RENATER, the French national research-and-education network (NREN) that serves more than a thousand higher-education and public-research sites across France. The aut-num descr field still carries the historical address of INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique), reflecting this ASN's origin in the early French research-Internet era before its registrant resolved to the present holder ORG-RA8-RIPE (Renater). The key triage point for AS294 is that it is dormant today: every routing source consulted (RIPEstat as-overview, bgp.he.net, bgp.tools) agrees it announces zero IPv4 and zero IPv6 prefixes, has zero visible BGP peers, zero upstreams, and no presence in the global routing table as of June 2026. RENATER's active operational routing runs under AS2200, which announces roughly 200 prefixes to about 140 peers and carries the backbone — around 12,000 km of fiber, 72 points of presence, and connectivity into the pan-European GÉANT network. RPKI posture cannot be assessed for AS294 because there are no active originations and therefore no ROAs. The RDAP autnum top-level registration event dates the record to 2002-08-21 (last changed 2019-06-24). No notable public abuse signal was found as of June 2026 — not in Spamhaus DROP/ASN-DROP, CleanTalk, AbuseIPDB, NANOG archives, or CISA advisories — consistent with a clean, dormant ASN held by a respected NREN that operates its own CERT (CERT-Renater).

Operator

GIP RENATER (Groupement d'Intérêt Public; RIPE org ORG-RA8-RIPE; aut-num descr references legacy holder INRIA) [Confirmed] — RIPE RDAP autnum/294, renater.fr/mentions-legales

Country / RIR

FR, RIPE NCC (ARIN RDAP redirects AS294 to RIPE via HTTP 303; IANA 16-bit block 1–1876 originally administered by ARIN) [Confirmed] — RIPE RDAP autnum/294, stat.ripe.net as-overview

Allocated

2002-08-21 (RIPE RDAP autnum top-level registration event, eventDate 2002-08-21T16:06:02Z — a first-party RIR registry fact, NOT an IEEE date); last changed 2019-06-24 [Confirmed] — RIPE RDAP autnum/294 top-level events. (bgp.tools surfaces a pre-RIR origin of 1993-09-01 consistent with RENATER's founding year; tagged [Likely] as a third-party value — the RDAP event date is authoritative)

Org status

active French public-service GIP (Groupement d'Intérêt Public), founded 1993 by decree; members include the French State, CNRS, CEA, Inria, CNES, Inserm, Onera, IRD, BRGM; HQ 23-25 rue Daviel, 75013 Paris [Confirmed] — renater.fr/mentions-legales, renater.fr GIP history

Contacts

certsvp@renater.fr (abuse, RA6839-RIPE); rensvp@renater.fr (technical/admin); +33 1 53 94 20 30; HQ 23-25 rue Daviel, 75013 Paris, France [Confirmed via RIPE RDAP + RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder]

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-06-26 — not in Spamhaus DROP/ASN-DROP, CleanTalk, AbuseIPDB, NANOG archives, or CISA advisories; dormant ASN (no routable IPs) under a respected NREN that runs CERT-Renater [Likely — Spamhaus/CleanTalk/AbuseIPDB portals returned 403 to live query, recorded as Unknown rather than confirmed-clean] — stat.ripe.net as-overview, bgp.he.net/AS294, renater.fr/security

Network & routing

Network type

French national research and education (R&E) network; AS294 is legacy/inactive (RENATER's active network runs under AS2200) [Confirmed] — RIPE RDAP autnum/294, renater.fr network page, peeringdb.com/asn/2200

Size

dormant — 0 IPv4 prefixes / 0 IPv4 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes; 0 IPs originated; not in the global routing table [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net / bgp.tools / RIPEstat as-overview (2026-06)

Routing/peering

NOT announced — 0 prefixes, 0 observed BGP peers, 0 upstreams in any source [Confirmed]. No PeeringDB entry for AS294; RENATER's peering activity is under AS2200 (~206 prefixes / ~141 peers) [Confirmed for AS2200] — bgp.he.net/AS294, bgp.tools/as/294, peeringdb.com/asn/2200

RPKI

not assessable — AS294 announces no prefixes, so there are no ROAs to validate; bgp.he.net shows 0 valid and 0 invalid origins [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS294

Notable usage

legacy ASN originally registered to INRIA (France's national CS/automation research institute) and retained by RENATER for administrative continuity; active infrastructure now runs under AS2200. RENATER serves the French ESR community via 72 PoPs and ~12,000 km of fiber and connects to GÉANT; services include eduroam, FileSender, and Rendez-Vous [Confirmed for legacy/INRIA origin and RENATER scope] — RIPE RDAP autnum/294, renater.fr network page, bgp.he.net/AS294

Geo footprint

France (registered HQ Paris); international reach via GÉANT for the active network [Confirmed] — RIPE RDAP autnum/294, bgp.he.net/AS294

Related ASNs

AS2200 (RENATER's active operational backbone, ~206 prefixes / ~141 peers) [Confirmed]

IXP presence

Unknown for AS294 (not announcing, thus not seen at any IXP) [Unknown] — bgp.he.net/AS294, bgp.tools/as/294

Analyst note

Encountered as a dormant legacy ASN registered to a historically significant NREN; WHOIS/RDAP resolves to Renater (legacy INRIA descr), but live routing is under AS2200, not AS294. Clean, inactive ASN.